Cry, The Beloved Country

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is trying to break free from the white people, but having little

success. It is this so called racism that is essential to the setting

of the story. Without it, the book would not have as much of an impact

as it does.


The story begins, as many great stories have begun, with a

solitary man taking a long and dangerous journey to a distant land.

The man is an Anglican Zulu priest, Rev. Stephen Kumalo, and the

journey is to the white-ran Johannesburg in 1946. Like a weary prophet

taking a biblical sojourn to Sodom, Kumalo is seeking out lost members

of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big

city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude, who has become a

prostitute: and mostly, his son Absalom, who has disappeared into the

darkness as surely as the original Absalom of the Old Testament was

lost to King David. Once he arrives, the nave Kumalo is immediately

robbed, and it isnt until he finds the enigmatic but helpful ...

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